Marketa Lazarova

(Frantisek Vlacil, 1967).
Frantisek Vlacils atmospheric, symbol-charged medieval epica wide-screen black-and-white feast for the eyeshas been compared to Akira Kurosawa and Sergio Leone, as well as Tarkovskys near-contemporaneous Andrei Rublev. All but unknown here, it was years in the making and is justly considered a national masterpiece by the Czechs.
Mon., June 29, 7:30 p.m., 2009